Juno assessment panel

The Practitioner and Champion awards are assessed by the Juno Assessment Panel, which meets twice a year.

The Panel comprises a Chair and at least five other members. With the approval of the Chair of the Panel, and the IOP Diversity and Inclusion Committee, panel members are drawn from Juno Champion and Practitioner departments. The Panel shall include at least two academic physicists and one non-academic physicist. There shall be at least one man and one woman on the Panel.

The current members of the Juno Assessment Panel are:

Professor Valerie Gibson, University of Cambridge (Chair)

Physics representative from industry, AWE

Dr Susan Burrows, University of Warwick

Dr Miriam Byrne, NUI Galway

Professor Farideh Honary, Lancaster University

Professor Peter Main, King's College London

Dr Matthew Mears, The University of Sheffield

Dr Victoria Pearson, Open University

Elizabeth Whitelegg, Open University

Dr Nicola Wilkin, University of Birmingham

The Panel will review the evidence that a department or school has submitted and will agree whether to award Practitioner or Champion. The Panel’s decision is final.

If you are awarded Practitioner status, you will be given three years in which to apply for the Champion award. Of course, there is nothing to stop you applying for Champion earlier than this, or even in the same year as Practitioner. If you are not ready to apply for Champion status at the end of the three years you are eligible for a three-year renewal of your Practitioner status.

If you are awarded Champion status, you will have to renew this every four years. The Diversity Team will give you information on how you should do this.

If your application for Practitioner of Champion is unsuccessful, your Supporter of Practitioner status will be automatically renewed for a further three years, within which time you will be expected to reapply for the award. The Diversity Team will support you as much as it can to achieve this.

If you are planning on making a submission, please get in touch with the Diversity Team as soon as possible so that we can give you advice and guidance on the application process.